The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism
This book seeks to show “how Calvin and his followers developed a distinct theology and jurisprudence of human rights and gradually cast these rights teachings into enduring institutional and constitutional forms in early modern Europe and America” (p. 2)., Attempting to correct the myopia of schola...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2009
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 366-368 |
| Review of: | The reformation of rights (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007) (Gregory, Brad S.)
The reformation of rights (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007) (Gregory, Brad S.) |
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| Summary: | This book seeks to show “how Calvin and his followers developed a distinct theology and jurisprudence of human rights and gradually cast these rights teachings into enduring institutional and constitutional forms in early modern Europe and America” (p. 2)., Attempting to correct the myopia of scholars who regard the modern discourse of human rights as essentially the Enlightenment's offspring, Witte emphasizes its indebtedness to Calvinism, itself an heir in this respect to ancient Judaism, Roman law, and medieval Christian canon law. Witte's introduction places his narrative within a revisionist overview of the history of human rights and explains his methodological decision to explore several major thinkers in depth. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csp053 |
